SDcamps•演辩营全国英语演讲与辩论赛
The difference a teacher can make– anonymous 老师的魅力– 匿名 Steve, a twelve-year-old boy with alcoholic parents, was about to be lost forever, by the U.S. education system. Remarkably, he could read, yet, in spite of his reading skills, Steve was failing. He had been failing since first grade, as he was passed on from grade to grade. 史蒂夫已经12岁了，他的父母...
To each parent he responded with one line: "Are you going to help me now?" 面对种种劝告，这位父亲的回答只有一句话："你们愿意帮我吗？" And then he continued to dig for his son, stone by stone. 然后继续进行挖掘工作，在废墟中寻找他的儿子。 The fire chief showed up and tried to pull him off the school s ruins saying, " 消防队长出现了，他也试图把这位父亲...
All Flowers Are Beautiful 所有的花儿都美丽 I grew up in a small town where the elementary school was a ten-minute walk from my house and in an age, not so long ago, when children could go home for lunch and find their mothers waiting. 我在一个小镇上长大，在那儿，从我家步行到我就读的小学只要10分钟。在那个时代——其实就是不久以前，孩子们可以回家吃午饭，妈妈总在等着。 At the time...
A Little Care Goes a Long Way 撒播爱心 He was driving home one evening, on a two-lane country road. Work, in this small, mid-western community, was almost as slow as his beat-up Pontiac. But he never quit looking. Ever since the Levis factory closed, he'd been unemployed, and with winter raging on, the chill had finally hit home. 一天晚上，在一条双车道的乡间小路上，一位...
Once the beer was made, I faced my biggest hurdle yet: getting it into beer drinkers' hands. Distributors all said the same thing: "Your beer is too expensive; no one has ever heard of you." So I figured I had to create a new category: the craft-brewed American beer. I needed a name that was recognizable and elegant, so I called my beer Samuel Adams, after the ...
A letter to my son 一封给我儿子的信 Dear Seth, 亲爱的塞斯， You're only three years old, and at this point in your life you can't read, much less understand what I'm going to try to tell you in this letter. 你现在仅仅3岁，此刻你还不识字，更不用说让你去理解我接下来想在这封信里对你所说的话了。 But I've been thinking a lot about the life that you have ahead of y...
That's what friends do 朋友就该这么做 Jack tossed the papers on my desk—his eyebrows knit into a straight line as he glared at me. 杰克把文件扔到我桌上，皱着眉头，气愤地瞪着我。 "What's wrong?" I asked. “怎么了？”我问道。 He jabbed a finger at the proposal. "Next time you want to change anything, ask me first," he said, turning on his heels and le...
Good God, What A Night That Was by Petronius Good God, what a night that was, The bed was so soft, and how we clung, Burning together, lying this way and that, Our uncontrollable passions Flowing through our mouths. If I could only die that way, I’d say goodbye to the business of living. （联系方式：新浪微博 @关爱抖森健康成长） NSDA“SDcamps”全国英语演讲/美式辩论赛 诚招省市合...
Dear God, Now that I am no longer young, I have friends whose mothers have passed away. 亲爱的上帝：如今我不再年轻，一些朋友的母亲已经去世。 I have heard these sons and daughters say they never fully appreciated their mothers until it was too late to tell them. 我曾听这些子女说过，他们从没有向母亲充分表达过他们的感激之情，而待到要告诉时为时已晚。 I am blessed with the dear m...
I Am a Dreamer 我是一个梦想家 I am a dreamer. 我是一个梦想家。 I wish I had endless power. 我希望我有无穷无尽的力量。 When you want to take a picture , I can be your camera. 当你需要拍照的时候，我就是你的相机。 When it is bad weather ,I can be your umbrella. 当天气很坏的时候，我就是你的雨伞。 I am a dreamer, a happy dreamer. 我是一个梦想家，一个快乐的梦想家。 NSDA“SDcamps”全...
When he confessed losing some of our savings in the stock market, I gave him a hug and said, "It's okay. It's only money." 而当他坦白承认用我们的一点积蓄炒股亏了钱时，我紧紧抱住他安慰说：“没关系，钱财乃身外之物。” There is sensitivity. Last week he walked through the door with that look that tells me it's been a tough day. After he spent some time with ...
Forgotten and Forgiven 忘记并宽容 As I sat perched in the second-floor window of our brick schoolhouse that afternoon, my heart began to sink further with each passing car. 那天下午，我坐在学校砖楼二楼的窗沿上，看着一辆辆经过的汽车，心不断地往下沉。 This was a day I'd looked forward to for weeks: Miss Pace's fourth-grade, end-of-the-year party. 裴老师带的四年级班的年...
"You must have wondered ", she said, "why I was so upset at the thought of young George's going to England without you. 她说："我听你说乔治要回国，又不带你走，心里非常不安。我这份心事你是不明白的。 I am an old woman, and perhaps I have the silly fancies of the old, but I should like to tell you my own love story, and then you can decide whether it is ...
The Love letter 迟到的情书 I was always a little in awe of Great-aunt Stephina Roos. Indeed, as children we were all frankly terrified of her. 我对斯蒂菲娜老姑总是怀着敬畏之情。说实在话，我们几个孩子对她都怕得要死。 The fact that she did not live with the family, preferring her tiny cottage and solitude to the comfortable but rather noisy household where we were brought up ...
“No，no,he' d say, "I was just waiting for you." “不，不累，”他总说，“我只是在等你。” Then we'd lock up the house and go to bed. 然后，我们便各自关上房门，上床睡觉了。 My father waited up for me all through my high school and college years while I danced my way out of his life. 在我上高中和大学的几年里，每次我出去跳舞，父亲都会一直等我回家。 Shortly after m...
Take, Oh, Take Those Lips Away by John Fletcher Take, oh, take those lips away That so sweetly were forsworn And those eyes, like break of day, Lights that do mislead the morn; But my kisses bring again, Seals of love, though sealed in vain. Hide, oh, hide those hills of snow, Which thy frozen bosom bears, On whose tops the pinks that grow Are of those that April wears; But ...
It wasn't until later that evening thhat I noticed a "mailbox" taped onto the doors to each of our bedrooms , there was one for Steve. There was one for Tom. She hadn't forgotten Sam or baby Paul. 直到深夜我才发现，每个人的卧室门上都贴着一个“邮”。史蒂夫一个，汤姆一个。她也没把山姆和小保罗忘了。 For the next few weeks, we received mail on a regular basis. Th...
The house was empty when I arrived and I looked for a note on the refrigerator that might explain my mother's absence, but found none. My chin quivered with a mixture of heartbreak and rage. For the first time in my life, my mother had let me down. 当我回到家，屋子里空无一人。我到冰箱上找有没有她留下的便条，她也许会解释没去的原因，可那儿什么也没有。失望和愤怒一头袭来，我...
There is a standing order that I have on file down here, and he has paid, well in advance, you'll get them every year. There also is another thing that I think you should know. He wrote a special little card. . . he did this years ago. “这里有一份委托书，我已存档。他预付了花款，委托我们每年给您送花。还有一件事，我想您有必要知道，还有一张特别的小卡片…….是他去...
the price of a miracle 奇迹的价格 Tess was a precocious eight-year-old girl when she heard her Mom and Dad talking about her little brother, Andrew. 听爸爸妈妈谈起小弟安德鲁的事情时，苔丝已是一个早熟的8岁小女孩。 All she knew was that he was very sick and they were completely out of money. 她只知道弟弟病得很厉害，父母却无钱给他医治。 They were moving to an apartment complex ...